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destroying the universe in star trek lit : comments and disscusions

timothy

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well YOu know the topic of the thread it can range from any aspect of star trek fiction . that includes all novels and comics as well as tv series and animated . and destruction can come from anywhere and anything including rewritting the time line to save the univers.
 
Re: destroying the universe in star trek lit : comments and disscusion

By my reckoning* (which is biased heavily towards works from the last decade), Trek lit has destroyed the universe at least twice. :lol: It's also twice arranged for its destruction but without actually "going for the kill".

* A pun, maybe?

In the Millennium trilogy, the pah-wraiths blow up the universe in order to end the Wormhole Aliens' war and reunite the sundered Celestial Temple. Good for the pah-wraiths, bad for everyone else. The Prophets have apparently been keeping our reality safe by denying the pah-wraiths their attempt to bridge the gap (these are the mainstream pah-wraiths, by the way, not Kosst Amojen and co, who are a rogue minority). The universe was created when the Temple split, and the orbs (or something very much like them, as seen in "Emissary" exiting the wormhole) were already in the Temple beforehand (the Wormhole Aliens don't even know where they come from). Oh, and a Bajoran priest is actually working for/with/against the Wormhole Aliens to ensure the universe is destroyed, and then saved by Sisko and co, so that a time-ship from the alternate future in which the universe blows up will travel back and found the mainstream Bajoran religion. So the universe blows up but then doesn't but still did in a future which spat a ship into the past and started it all. Yes, it's that sort of story. :lol: The Bajoran priest in question blew up the universe to ensure a stable time loop remained stable (a time loop drawing on multiple timelines at once) and he outsmarted his own gods to do so, giving them what they wanted, furthering their agenda only to then undo it all. That always leaves me grinning. TV Tropes has a "Badass Preacher" page; maybe I should add him...

I don't know if I was meant to reach this conclusion, but I read the Prophet's repeated assertion in the trilogy that "we always win" as carrying a double meaning - not only one of their usual explanations of time but also hinting at an emotional truth. They win either way, because on one level they want the pah-wraiths to succeed even though they work to stop them...

In Q and A, meanwhile, Picard accidentally pulls the plug on the universe and it starts breaking down, entropy speeding up (actually progressing "normally" - turns out it was being slowed to a crawl by the creators of the universe). Those creators of the universe - four beings known as Them - intend for a representative of each universe they've made to find its way into the scenario, work out its puzzles, then face a final test to prove its universe worthy of continued existance. So Picard is all that's left of the universe and has to prove it worthy of being reinstated. Fortunately, Q is on the case; he's been training Picard from the start for this very event. Picard passes the test and the universe is brought back just as it was, allowed to continue.

Personally, while there's no link made at all in the text, I like to connect this with Millennium and assume that the orbs in the Celestial Temple which provoked its split and formed our universe are artifacts of Them, and They use a Celestial Temple as the "egg" from which they hatch a universe. :evil:

Also, the universe imperils itself (stop doing that, universe, really!) in the Voyager: String Theory trilogy and also a short story in "Prophecy and Change".

In the former, Voyager messes around with the strings tying reality together and they start unravelling. It's not an immediate concern - they have tens of millennia or something before it gets bad - but of course they have to put it right...

In the story from "Prophecy and Change" Ezri Dax deals with an artifact that is going to restore the universe when it naturally ends and start another one through a big bang. The device was apparently created a billion years ago by a super-advanced race eager to Let There Be Light another time once this universe is gone. It's an eager little device that tries to do its thing early, which isn't good. Dax stops it and helps it bond with spacetime so its primed while contained for now.

I don't know if it works or not (didn't start anything new in Q and A or Millennium, did it? :p), and apparently it thinks a Selenean woman's brain is an appropriate vessel for a universe, so it may not have all its screws in straight...;)

Oh, and something else; if we're branching out into other universes, in one of the Myriad Universes stories Fluidic Space universe nearly gets destroyed when the Voth deploy a doomsday device against Species 8472/the Groundskeepers. Kes saves the day, though.
 
Re: destroying the universe in star trek lit : comments and disscusion

We aren't talking about David Mack's new trilogy, then?
 
Re: destroying the universe in star trek lit : comments and disscusion

He's only gone up to the Federation - let him work through threatening the entire Milky Way first. THEN we can progress to the universe. :p
 
Re: destroying the universe in star trek lit : comments and disscusion

I am talking all trek formates :

star trek
star trek vanguard
star trek the next generation
star trek tng relaunch
star trek deep space nine
star trek ds9 relaunch
star trek voyager
star trek voyager relaunch
star trek s c e
star trek new frontier
star trek myriad universe
star trek mirror universe
star trek marvel comics
star trek dc
star trek idw

am I missing anything here . all topics of destruction , time monipulation any thing of the type .

read millinum trillogy loved it . on Q&A right now .
 
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